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Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
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Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
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Re: Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
You're undoubtedly right. There should be nothing surprising about this. I don't see how anyone with as clear and easily discoverable a record of corruption, pathological lying and dishonest business dealings can possibly win without an all out, no holds barred and ultimately successful determination to spread as much disinformation as possible about both himself and his opponents.
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“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
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“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
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I posted about this story from the Atlantic about a month ago but nobody responded. A billion-dollar disinformation campaign seems huge. One of Trump's supporters even purchased Twitter so the disinformation cannot be stopped.
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Re: Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
Here’s the updated list with a map now of all the Trump attack vectors:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comme ... volutions/
tl;dr - Parscale is up to his usual crap.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comme ... volutions/
tl;dr - Parscale is up to his usual crap.
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
On a local level, the Markk attack vector seems like a fiendish plot.
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Re: Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
One of the harder lessons to take of the last few years for me is that the vast majority of people are full of crap, mostly from self-delusion.
I suppose I'm just getting over being way too trusting. My default reaction to anything anyone says these days is, "I wonder if that's verifiable?" I suspect most of the stuff I hear (when I hear it) is straight up BS. People are simply damned dumb.
I suppose I'm just getting over being way too trusting. My default reaction to anything anyone says these days is, "I wonder if that's verifiable?" I suspect most of the stuff I hear (when I hear it) is straight up BS. People are simply damned dumb.
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Re: Trump's Campaign to Spread Disinformation
This is Nixon and Bush I, and probably a lot of other past candidates and campaigns. I don't think disinformation and voter suppression is anything new. Sad, but not new.
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